Return to nature?
Subtitle: an ecological counterhistory
By: Fred Dallmayr
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780813134338; 9780813134345
Subjects: Philosophy of nature
Description: "Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems. In Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory, Fred Dallmayr demonstrates how nature has been marginalized, colonized, and abused in the modern era. Although nature was regarded as a matrix that encompassed all beings in premodern and classical thought, modern Western thinkers tend to disregard this original unity, essentially exiling nature from human life. By means of a philosophical counterhistory leading from Spinoza to Dewey and beyond, the book traces successive efforts to correct this tendency. Grounding his writing in a holistic relationism that reconnects humanity with ecology, Dallmayr pleads for the reintroduction of nature into contemporary philosophical discussion and sociopolitical practice."--Pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-206) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: letting nature back in; title: Nature and divine substance: Spinoza; title: Nature and spirit: Schelling; title: Nature and sentiment: romanticism; title: Nature and experience: Dewey; title: Nature and life-world: Merleau-Ponty; title: Nature and being: Heidegger; title: Nature and the way: Asian thought.